birth of a soldier

Hi folks !

Humpfgrunz was born the 18th of june 2008. He's name was chosen by its godly creator because this char was his first and thus experimental char to enter EVE Online. He was ment to do everything wrong which can be done wrong just to be removed after a few days or weeks and be replaced by new chars doing right what he had wrongly done.
"Charisma" sounds cool thought his creator and made him a Gallentean Activist of the Federal Navy academy with an extremely high charisma.
The next few days Humpfgrunz was busy flying missions and cursing about the lousy bounties.
In some help-channel he got the advice to use a salvager, so he bought the skill and began to salvage the missions.
The loot seeming most useful was mounted on his ship, so he soon flew a tristan with autocannons, cap booster and overdrive since he couldn't use neither afterburner nor microwarpdrive then.
To survive missions he flew them in so called "takeout runs" that meant he entered the mission, killed some ships and left for a nearby station to recover his shield. He wondered why his shields tanked so badly and chose to equip his Gallentean frig with a shield booster.
A week or two later Humpfgrunz began to fly a destroyer. First he tried to equip his Catalyst with lasers but those pesky things used too much capacitor, so he chose railguns because he wanted the range. Because that ship had a hangar for one drone he chose to use a mining drone which he could direct to some nearby asteroids for a little extra income.
He needed that income, since he lost ships and fittings as well as some then overly expensive +2 Implants when his autopilot chose to take a shortcut through 0.0. Lowsec wasn't such a problem, though he didn't know better than to fly with autopilot and to speed those endless journeys up a bit he just kicked on the microwarpdrive everytime he got out of a warp. (some few weeks later he realized that manual flying was possible and even faster than using that supid autopilot).

Now that the first month of his existence had passed, his godly creator chose to stop learning everything just by doing and to start collecting tutorials, informations and software just to support his creation in EVE Online. Tutorials were read, EFT and EVEMon installed, forums were read and the wisdom of others applied to the skilling plans, fittings and actions of Humpfgrunz.
The time was ripe to get into collective action and to join a corporation. Humpfgrunz wanted company and thus he set up his criteria: 0.0, PvP and mission running as well as insight into other activities possible in EVE Online. In the belief to have found what he sought he joined the Corporation "Die LIGA" (the league).
Those guys were friendly and really helpful. Tax was really low at 5%. Humpfgrunz ran missions up to Level3 by then grinding standing with several agents.
Flying in a small group through Providence (CVA-Area) every second week for hours avoiding any real targets was called PvP and once our Humpfgrunz landed in a bubble with his friends and all reapproched the gate and went on in their journey. Due to the lack of knowledge he naturally chose to use his mission thorax with armor reppers and Capacitor Power Relays in the lows as well as their pendants in the meds just to keep that ship capstable.

Then there were the wars. Cool ! Some idiot declared war on us, Humpfgrunz thought, just to realize that Voicecomms (TS) became empty in that time as well as nearly everyone suddenly was very busy at being absent. Others suddenly were about 30-40 jumps away to be found.
Humpfgrunz knew he couldnt fight a Sleipnir neither with his Thorax, nor with his Myrmidon. At least not with his current skills and soon he began to skill for better resistence on his ship, for being able to ECM and ECCM, for being able to use Warp Disruptors and Warp Scramblers while he sat on station waiting for friends defending the corporation.
Once a week together with the CEO and some friends Humpfgrunz made in that corporation they indeed managed to get a fleet of about 10 Pilots together. But the wartargets chose to stay docked then or just to stay within docking range. It was boring and it was frustrating.

The CEO of Die LIGA, who didn't want to spend the money for creating an alliance, chose to enter a pact with some other companies as e.g. Hital. This pact meant that we'd declare war on any foe who would declare war on one of our allied companies. And finally it meant we had lots of wars. We did joint operations together with the other corps, but the largest fleet we had out of over 500 members was the size of just more than 20 participants.
We lost ships in the dozens and we just killed one or two. It was frustrating.
Humpfgrunz started intensive discussions within the corporation. He expressed all his frustration with the wimpy behaviour of the members. He didn't understand why all this guys and women (yes there were !) did collect billions of ISK other than to have it blown up in PVP.

One of our allied companies, Hital, chose to rent some professionals to handle the problem with Highsec wardeccing idiots with advanced station camping skill V. Hital rent GIS, Gemeinschaft interstellarer Soeldner. Suddenly our wartargets were docked all day, their homebase secured and suddenly they weren't able to undock for more than a few seconds without being killed.

Humpfgrunz was impressed. This GIS folks did what he would like to have done.
Then came the message that one of his friends at Die LIGA left and went to become a GIS member. Humpfgrunz wanted to be there, too and thus started a conversation with his overly enthusiastic friend. After that discussion he immediately dropped all his rights in his current corporation and the next days he got into a conversation with the recruiting officer.
A few moments later, one week after his friend, he was GIS member himself.

A soldier was born.


Disclaimer: my native language is an ancient form of german called "Schwiizerdütsch" or swiss german. Thus my posts will and do contain a huge amount of misspelling, misswording and every other kind of grammatical and orthographic error you can imagine.